Mark Danner Commencement Address

"If clear sight were not so painful, many more would elect to have it. Today, you do not conclude but begin: today you commence. My blessings upon you, and my gratitude to you for training yourself to see. Reality, it seems, has caught up with you."

The above comes from the ending of Mark Danner's Commencement Address that he gave to the Rhetoric students at UC Berkeley on May 10. In case you don't know, Danner is an author, journalist and Professor of Journalism at Berkeley. As we come to the end of our workshop, I think you ought to read this speech at http://www.alternet.org.